
The war against Ukraine has been going on for three years. For the world, the situation becomes more and more routine. How does it feel when war becomes “normal”?
The initial outcry fades, the outrage flattens out, the war becomes increasingly distant and is being increasingly forgotten - or becomes election campaign material for populists who want to see an end to any solidarity with the attacked country. The people in the country themselves do not have the privilege of forgetting the war - but for them, too, the exceptional situation is becoming normal, with corresponding strategies for dealing with it.
Shards of Normality is based on research among Ukrainian and Western European artists that director Yuri Birte Anderson has been conducting since 2022/23 - an archive into which the different voices and perspectives on the normalization of the war are incorporated.
The International Laboratory Ensemble develops a performative installation on the topic with live and digital elements that links different levels and combines audio and film recordings, objects, written word and live performance.
60 Minuten
Additional information
A co-production with the Freies Werkstatt Theater Cologne. Funded by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, the Diversitätsfonds NRW, the NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste and the Kulturamt der Stadt Köln. Performance (Live): Asta Nechajute, Andrey UrazovPerformance (Video): Janet de Vigne, Ira Kharlamova, Antonina Romanova, Katya Ponomarenko, Martin MacLennan, "Gregory" Director: Yuri Birte Anderson Production Manager: Asta Nechajute Film and Audio: Zee Upītis Expert: Nicole NagelSubtitles: Rostislav Silvestrov
Dates
July 2025
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